V. I. Lenin

Draft Decisions for the C.P.C. onThe Organisation of Food Supply{1}

Written:January 16 (29), 1918Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVIII.

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      2nd English Edition,

      Progress Publishers,1965,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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TheCouncil of People’s Commissars asks the Food Congress
immediately, not later than tomorrow morning, to appoint at least three of
the most experienced food supply workers to take part at once in the work
of the existing top food supply bodies and in the discussion of the most
vigorous and revolutionary steps for coping with the famine.

TheCouncil of People’s Commissars asks the Food Congress to elect a
committee to receive reports from all the groups, institutions and workers
in the food business who are now in conflict, and to forward the
committee’s findings to the C.P.C.

{1}These draft decisions were written by Lenin during the disussion at the
meeting of the C.P.C. of the report of the presidium of the first Soviet
All-Russia Food Congress, which opened in Petrograd on January 14 (27),
dealing with the organisation of a single centre for handling the food
problem. The resolution of the congress testified to the important progress
achieved in rallying the food supply workers behind the Soviet
government. At the same time the C.P.C. was informed of disagreements
between the People’s Commissar for Food A. G. Schlichter, on the one hand,
and the presidium of the food congress, the All-Russia Food Council
(elected in November 1917 at the food congress in Moscow) and the Food
Department of the Supreme Economic Council, on the other. It was in this
connection that Lenin wrote his second draft.  The first was adopted by the
C.P.C., but the second was not included in the minutes of the meeting (see
pp. 52-53 of this volume).